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The 35 tons of fossils might well have represented the lifetime discoveries of any of the delegates to the Paris paleontologic conference.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fortnight ago he returned to Manhattan with a cigar box half-full of bits to complete his paleontologic jigsaw puzzle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course, the main arguments of the evolution theory rest upon morphologic, systematic, geographic and paleontologic evidence.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

This fact is most conclusively proved, not only by geographic and paleontologic records, but by legitimate induction.

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.

Some years ago one of your Secretaries pointed out another kind of positive paleontologic evidence tending towards the same conclusion—afforded by the existence of what he termed "persistent types" of vegetable and of animal life.*

From Lectures and Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry